Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
Parallel translations
- KJV Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
- BSB Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.
- NKJV Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ guilt.
- NASB Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers.
- NLT Go ahead and finish what your ancestors started.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Gen 15:16In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”
- Num 32:14“Behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, an increase of sinful men, to increase the fierce anger of Yahweh toward Israel.
- 1 Th 2:16forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
- Zech 5:6–11I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is the ephah basket that is appearing.” He said moreover, “This is their appearance in all the land
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